Final Special Consideration for Grants for Residency Training and Advanced Education in the General Practice of Dentistry for Fiscal Year 1995

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration

Final Special Consideration for Grants for Residency Training and

Advanced Education in the General Practice of Dentistry for Fiscal Year

1995

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announces

the final special consideration for fiscal year (FY) 1995 Grants for

Residency Training and Advanced Education in the General Practice of

Dentistry funded under the authority of section 749, title VII of the

Public Health Service Act (the Act), as amended by the Health

Professions Education Extension Amendments of 1992, Pub. L. 102-408,

dated October 13, 1992.

Purpose

Section 749 of the PHS Act authorizes the Secretary to make grants

to any public or nonprofit private school of dentistry or accredited

postgraduate dental training institution (e.g., hospitals and medical

centers) to plan, develop, and operate an approved residency or an

approved advanced educational program in the general practice of

dentistry; to provide financial assistance to participants in such a

program who are in need of financial assistance and who plan to

specialize in the practice of general dentistry; and to fund

innovative, nontraditional models for the provision of postdoctoral

General Dentistry training.

A special consideration for this program was proposed for public

comment in the Federal Register on November 1, 1994 at 59 FR 54614. No

comments were received during the 30-day comment period. Therefore, the

proposed special consideration will be retained as follows:

Final Special Consideration

Special consideration will be given to approved applications based

on the extent to which they address innovative means of providing

advanced general dentistry education that can help meet the current and

future demand of such training. This might include new sponsor/co-

sponsor arrangements; different organizational and administrative

structures; expanded private/public sector affiliations and setting

linkages; and creative applications for current instructional

telecommunications and computer technologies.

If additional programmatic information is needed, please contact:

Dr. Rosemary E. Duffy, Division of Associated, Dental, and Public

Health Professions, Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources

and Services Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 8C-09,

Rockville, Maryland 20857, Telephone: (301) 443-6837.

Grants for Residency Training and Advanced Education in the

General Practice of Dentistry is listed at 93.897 in the Catalog of

Federal Domestic Assistance. Applications submitted in response to

this announcement are not subject to the provisions of Executive

Order 12372, Intergovernmental Review of Federal Programs (as

implemented through 45 CFR part 100). This program is not subject to

the Public Health System Reporting Requirements.

Dated: January 26, 1995.

Ciro V. Sumaya,

Administrator.

[FR Doc. 95-2430 Filed 1-31-95; 8:45 am]

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